A. Privies, vaults, cesspools, sumps, pits or like places which are not securely protected from insects or rodents, or which are foul or malodorous, or which are not securely closed and protected or, if necessary, illuminated so as to prevent persons or objects from falling therein. Also included are septic tanks and other alternative disposal systems which are no longer in use due to connection of a property to the city wastewater system, and which are required to be abandoned pursuant to SCC 13.15.030(E);

B. Filthy, littered or trash-covered exterior areas, including all buildings and structures thereon and areas adjacent thereto; including, but not limited to, accumulations of litter, glass, cans, bottles, wood, metal, plastic, rags, boxes, paper, tires, auto parts; unused, inoperable, worn out or discarded appliances or other household items; lumber, scrap iron, tin and other metal not neatly piled; or anything whatsoever that is or may become a hazard to public health and safety, or that may harbor insect, rodent or vermin infestation, or which may create a fire hazard. This subsection shall not be deemed to include items kept in covered bins or metal receptacles approved by the county health officer or this code or any other ordinance of the city;

C. Animal manure or waste in any quantity which is not securely protected from insects and the elements, or which is kept or handled in violation of any ordinance of the city or Coconino/Yavapai Counties; provided, however, that nothing in this subsection shall be deemed to prohibit the utilization of such animal manure on any farm, garden or ranch in such manner and for such purposes as are compatible with customary methods of good husbandry;

D. Any landscaping, visible from public property, that is substantially dead, damaged, or characterized by uncontrolled growth, or presents a deteriorated appearance, or which presents a fire hazard; uncultivated plants, weeds, tall grass, uncultivated shrubs or growth (whether growing or otherwise) higher than 12 inches; or any hazardous dead trees;

E. Any dangerous, deteriorated, abandoned, partially destroyed or unfinished building, addition, or other structure, and any vacated or abandoned building not securely closed at all times.

F. Any abandoned vehicle or junk vehicle and all places used or maintained as junk yards or dumping grounds, or for the wrecking, disassembling, repair or rebuilding of automobiles, trucks, tractors or machinery of any kind, or for the storing or leaving of worn out, wrecked or abandoned automobiles, trucks, tractors or machinery of any kind or of any of the parts thereof, or for the storing or leaving of any machinery or equipment used by contractors or builders or by other persons, which said places are kept or maintained so as to interfere with the comfortable enjoyment or the quality of life or property by and of others; provided, however, that nothing contained in this subsection shall be deemed to prohibit any automobile wrecking yard or other junk yard where the same is otherwise permitted by the city zoning ordinance and amendments thereto, which is operated in conformity therewith;

G. Any putrid, unsound or unwholesome bones, meat, hides, skins, or the whole or any part of any dead animal, fish or fowl, butcher’s trimmings and offal, or any waste vegetable or animal matter in any quantity, garbage, human excreta, sewage or other offensive substances accumulated on private or public property; provided, however, nothing herein contained shall prevent the temporary retention of waste in receptacles in the manner provided by a county health officer, this code or ordinance of the city;

H. The erection, continuance or use of any building, room or other place in the city for the exercise of any trade, employment or manufacture which, by noxious exhalations, including, but not limited to, smoke, soot, dust, fumes or other gases, offensive odors or other annoyances, which is discomforting or offensive or detrimental to the health of individuals or of the public, except for normal exhalation or smoke produced by normal heating devices;

I. Causing, allowing or permitting any artificial illumination of such intensity as to interfere substantially and unnecessarily with the use and enjoyment of public or private property by a considerable number of people, or with the lawful use of any school, public place or public street, or with any governmental or public function of the city, or as to constitute a hazard or threat to the public health, safety and welfare of the people of Sedona; provided, this subsection shall not apply where the person responsible for said artificial illumination is authorized by the city manager, any school within the city, this code or any ordinance of the city;

J. Burning or disposal of refuse, sawdust or other material in such a manner as to cause or permit ashes, sawdust, soot or cinders to be cast upon the streets or alleys of the city, or to cause or permit the smoke, ashes, soot or gases arising from such burning to become annoying to a considerable number of people, or to injure or endanger the health, comfort or repose of the persons; provided, that this subsection shall not apply where the person responsible for the action has properly obtained a fire permit from the Sedona fire district or a permit from a county health officer; provided further, that nothing herein contained in this subsection shall be deemed to authorize any burning not authorized under the provisions of this code or the ordinances of the city, except for normal exhalation or smoke produced by normal heating devices;

K. Any unguarded or abandoned excavation, pit, well or hole dangerous, injurious or harmful to life or property;

L. To leave or permit to remain outside of any dwelling, building or other structure, or within any unoccupied or abandoned building, dwelling or other structure under the control of any person and in a place accessible to children, any abandoned, unattended or discarded ice box, freezer, refrigerator or other container which has an airtight door or lid, snap lock or other locking device which may not be released from the inside, without first removing said door or lid, snap lock or other locking device from said ice box, freezer, refrigerator or container;

M. The doing of any act, or omitting to perform a duty, or suffering or permitting any condition or thing to be or exist, which act, omission, condition or other thing either unlawfully interferes with, obstructs or tends to obstruct or renders dangerous the free passage or use, in the customary manner, of any stream, public park, parkway, square, sidewalk, street or highway in the city and is no less a nuisance because the extent of the annoyance or damage inflicted is unequal;

N. On residentially zoned properties: any construction, commercial, or other equipment, machinery, or materials except that construction equipment, machinery or material which is temporarily kept within or upon the property for and during the time such equipment, machinery or material is required for the construction or installation of improvements or facilities on that property. However, in no event shall the construction equipment, machinery or materials be in the front or side yard areas visible from a public street for any period of time in excess of 12 consecutive months or 12 nonconsecutive months in any 18-month period;

O. On residentially zoned property, any business or activity which dismantles, disassembles, builds, remodels, assembles, crushes, repairs, paints, washes, cleans or services motor vehicles, aircraft, motorcycles, recreational vehicles, boats or trailers owned by a person other than the property owner. [Code 2006 § 9-2-2. Ord. 93-14, 9-28-1993; Ord. 2022-04 § 1, 9-13-2022; Res. 2022-27 Exh. A, 9-13-2022].